Example sentences of "[conj] have [verb] [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only restrictions on purchasers were not to have owned their own home during the previous three years or to have spent more than $100,000 on their prospective North Side home . |
| 2 | First , there is n't much left of the building and second , some of the aircraft pieces were lost or had blown more than a mile away . |
| 3 | One is the Muslims , the group that has suffered more than any other in the fighting . |
| 4 | Here , suddenly , was a car to lust after , but also a car to strike fear into the hearts of rival companies in an industry that has struggled more than most in 1992 . |
| 5 | The one event that has done more than any other to damage the reputation of Athenian democracy is , of course , the trial and execution of Socrates in 399 BC for impiety and corrupting the young . |
| 6 | Sarajevo radio , which monitors ham radio transmissions from inside Gorazde , said Serb besiegers used rocket launchers against the town in the latest phase of a 17-day onslaught that has cost more than 600 lives . |
| 7 | TOKYO share prices soared yesterday , reversing a slide that had wiped more than 10 p.c. off the Nikkei stock average since the start of the week . |
| 8 | She had heard of storms great enough to flood some of the booths near to the shore , but never one that had thrown more than spray on the walls of the longhouses . |
| 9 | In 1985 the firm changed from a federal structure of 12 individual practices into a single unit — a process that had taken more than three years to achieve . |
| 10 | Attracted by rents that have risen faster than in all other European cities bar Madrid , developers have been throwing up office blocks on sites from Cologne and Munich to Berlin . |
| 11 | Our admissions policy and er , er pre- establishments throughout the education department certainly takes account of erm single parents ' situations , particularly the stress that 's involved in bringing up parents in that respect because it 's it 's the stress that 's involved rather than |
| 12 | Well a man that 's got more than one home for a start ! |
| 13 | Flight Sergeant Pritcard is the team coach and has made more than three thousand jumps . |
| 14 | It is one of a limited number of boats designed by the car maker and has cost more than £20,000 to restore . |
| 15 | The group raised a thumping £560m through a rights issue last year and has shed more than 84,000 jobs worldwide in an effort to reduce its overheads . |
| 16 | The Reagan administration has asked for $709.3 million for ballistic missile defence ( BMD ) for 1984 , and has proposed more than double that for 1985 . |
| 17 | He made his debut for Gloucestershire in 1981 and has taken more than 400 first-class wickets . |
| 18 | Ten years on , and having lost more than 150,000 manufacturing jobs in the northern region alone , manufacturing is faced with yet another recession , only this time , far from leanness and fitness , it is faced with malnutrition and is dangerously near the point of no return . |
| 19 | These men are most likely to have sex every day and to have had more than 30 sexual partners . |
| 20 | Prior to 1917 most Belorussian peasant farms had belonged to individual families and had averaged less than 20 acres . |
| 21 | A member of my staff for instance , trying to report sickness absence , told me yesterday that she dialled our number and had to wait more than four minutes before being answered . |
| 22 | The club draws their membership from both the guide and scout associations in North Hampshire and have taught more than 500 young people basic to advanced life saving skills over the past 21 years . |
| 23 | We also pioneered satellite communications for private business , and have built more than half the communications satellites used in the United States and other Free World countries . |
| 24 | After all , they know more , and have experienced more than their children ; they have a legal and moral responsibility to control and care for their offspring . |
| 25 | THE man who took office as President of Panama early yesterday morning was popularly elected last spring but had to wait more than six months before being thrust into power by the United States . |
| 26 | She had thought longingly of the candle left behind in Guy 's chamber , but had known better than to mention it . |